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The report described Millennials Rising as a "good-news revolution" making "sweeping predictions" and describing Millennials as "rule followers who were engaged, optimistic, and downright pleasant", commenting the "book gave educators and tens of millions of parents, a warm feeling, saying who wouldn't want to hear that their kids are special?"
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, who created the Strauss–Howe generational theory, coined the term 'millennial' in 1987. [8] [9] because the oldest members of this demographic cohort came of age at around the turn of the third millennium A.D. [10] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991) [11] and Millennials Rising ...
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
Multiple engagement studies show that the interests shared across the generation gap by members of this increasingly multi-generational workplace can differ substantially. [ 16 ] A popular belief held by older generations is that the characteristics of Millennials can potentially complicate professional interactions.
The word generate comes from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget". [4] The word generation as a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation).
This was a significant shift in the American political landscape. Millennials not only provided their votes but also the enthusiasm that marked the 2008 election. They volunteered in political campaigns and donated money. [29] But that millennial enthusiasm all but vanished by the next election cycle while older voters showed more interest. [30]
Millennials are hard working, resourceful, and imaginative. They readily take on and solve new problems and technologies with which they were previously unfamiliar with, and are known for their ability to fix problems. They were the first generation to grow up with computers and the internet, and are considered the first true "technology natives".
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Marc Prensky defines the term "digital native" and applies it to a new group of students enrolling in educational establishments referring to the young generation as "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, videos, video games, social media and other sites on the internet.